I think in part because 90s Internet was before the majority of millennials were really heavily online. I’m an '88 millennial, and my childhood Internet was still early 2000s, mostly.

Stuff like IRCRizon and Limewire and Geocities and even Gaia Online over DSL, rather than BBSes over probably AOL dialup (I had that as a kid, but only as a very young kid, i.e. literal preteen.

Nyan cat and motivational poster memes are my golden age, not Usenet.

My former boss and his boss. They took a chance on me based on my enthusiasm, and got me started in my ‘dream’ role. But ultimately they were both just coworkers, and I haven’t kept up contact (I did meet my boss’ boss after leaving, for lunch at a conference, once) after I left that company.

“Universal High Wealth is when all the not-wealthy people starve and die, and it’s just us rich people left with our robot servants!”

I’ve used CF tunnels myself, but I’m sitting at home rn so it doesn’t matter. Watched ID4 a bit ago, no streaming services necessary.

Sucks for everyone without a dope homelab/ home data center setup!

spark fears companies and capital will flee

No, it sparked bad faith fear mongering claims, but those didn’t actually fool anyone.

This is some next-level simping for credit card companies under the guise of being on the side of small businesses. There’s no actual concrete explanation of how this will be worse for consumers, just lots of “but do you really think fighting credit card companies won’t turn out worse for you in the end?” fear mongering.

This author has some absolute crap articles, such as this one about not shaming companies for layoffs:

For starters, if you’re part of a layoff, please understand the situation. Employers lay off workers for a reason. It’s usually economics. No manager or business owner wants to lay people off. No one is hiring someone with the intention of firing them in the future. No one is happy about this. For a big business, a layoff could mean an adjustment in overhead. But for a small business – where every employee is critical – a layoff is probably much more serious. So please don’t be so quick to shame the company.

Bruh, please.

I never got the PS5 because the PS3 -> PS4 jump was too underwhelming, when PC is pulling away so many games. And it’s not about or solvable with exclusives, because there are literally no games I can think of that would make me buy a whole console just to play. Imho PC gaming, especially in the Golden Age of Indies, is just too strong an argument unless you are a console-only gamer.

He had a heart attack, in other words. Unlike A-fib, V-fib isn’t an ongoing condition you can manage that has “flare-ups”, it’s an acute symptom of conditions like various heart diseases or brain damage.

Sorry to hear that, Powderhorn. I’m glad you’re there with family, and don’t have to manage logistics. Get some rest, friend.

On the one hand, I think this is part of a push to digitize all currency eventually so that it can be tracked (and controlled). It also makes things just that little bit more expensive for people who are unable to secure banking, as businesses will now round-up for cash transactions.

On the other hand, US pennies have always been imo a badly designed coin. They’re both too bulky for their value, but not so hefty that they feel good aesthetically.

No comment on the symbolism of this particular administration killing the currency denom with Lincoln on it. 🙃

The author is cooking the data to say what they want.

The opposition to data centers in peoples’ local area is very different than opposition to AI. They wouldn’t be okay with the data centers if they were just AWS or Azure regional DCs either.

People compartmentalize consumption vs production. Propose to put cattle farms and slaughterhouses next door to most people and they’ll flip out, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want burgers.

I’m sure my partner and pets will appreciate me bouncing for 6 months. :P

I’m very much drawn to a semi-nomadic lifestyle, but the financial cost to rework my life into one isn’t in my means.

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/10/democrats-republicans-government-shutdown-aca-deal/

Key Senate Dem Says Party Caved on Shutdown to Make a Symbolic Point About the GOP

Speaking to The Intercept, a key Democratic leader who voted to end the shutdown argued the party did get something out of the fight: the illustration of a point.

“It proved the point that Republicans are not sensitive to health care insurance premiums and we are sensitive to health care insurance premiums,” said Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., “and the national polls show that we’ve made a national issue out of [it].” (emphasis mine)

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So far, legislation to reopen the government has been stalled in the Senate due to objections from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., over a hemp-related provision in the bill.

Rand Paul is actually defending hemp farmers. Fuck Centrist Dems. They can’t even claim to be better than Rand Friggin’ Paul.

I don’t know, a true conservative should be opposing attacks on the institution of our government. And any gerrymandering is an attack on that institution.

Which is exactly what Texas is doing, and Prop 50 is designed to be a reciprocal response; it’s not California just going, “well if you’re going to rig yours we’ll rig our’s better!”, it’s California nullifying the gerrymandering in Texas by matching it 1-to-1. If you’re anti-gerrymandering, Prop 50 is what actually discourages it, by making it pointless to do.

has he come out with any proper long term solutions? Seems to me, at a federal level we need to do things like lift the artificial cap on number of representatives, limit surface area to volume of districts, and limit concavity of district lines.

He generally doesn’t weigh in on what federal laws he thinks should change now, he stays pretty California-internal.

The sentence is constructed ambiguously. A better version of that sentence is

Gamers Nexus was contacted by the U.S. Secret Service because of Gamers Nexus’ investigation into Nvidia’s slow corruption

The USSS contacted GN on behalf of the Trump administration, because they were upset at GN’s investigation.

The cruelty was the strategy. They were testing how much innocent suffering Democrats would tolerate before breaking.

Schumer (who knew the whole time, despite claiming otherwise) and his ilk didn’t break out of compassion, they took a dive because they thought that blowback would be lighter than it was, and they wanted to use “Republicans killed ACA subsidies” as a campaign item for contested seats in the midterms to make them ‘safer’ wins. That’s why they chose patsies who weren’t up for re-election, so the other ghouls could say, “oh, I’m not the one who caved, and now that the subsidies are dead you need to elect me to get them back!”

We may never get the full accounting of which Senate Dems were invovled in this, but Schumer is the Minority Leader and has to go.

To be fair, the original Deus Ex is more anti-authoritarianism than it is anti-capitalist in the motivations of the villains. Grey Death wasn’t done for economic purposes, it was literally a means to kick off a worldwide eugenics experiment. They used the Ambrosia vaccine to select who lives, not really to make money.

Any work that satirizes wealth or corporate greed, made by a public company, is almost definitionally hypocritical.

Outer Worlds has this same issue.

Read this piece and loved it, writing included ;)

Yeah, NYT is just trash.